Obama Signs Monsanto Protection Act Into Law After Promising GMO Labeling in 2007

Obama Signs Monsanto Protection Act Into Law After Promising GMO Labeling in 2007

President Obama has signed into law the notorious Monsanto Protection Act legislation hidden inside of the Continuing Resolution spending bill, which protects Monsanto and its genetically modified creations from federal courts.

by Anthony Gucciardi
NaturalSociety.com
March 28, 2013

Passing up the chance to veto the bill in favor of stopping Monsanto’s increasing monopoly on the food supply, Obama pushed the bill through into a law in a move that reminds us of his failed 2007 promise to ‘immediately’ label GMOs upon his election.

Contained in the rider (Farmer Assurance Provision, Sec. 735) of HR 933, Monsanto is now even protected (at least under this law) from the United States government.

As I pointed out in a previous article, the Monsanto Protection Act’s success actually proves how corporations have more power than even the United States federal government. Monsanto’s lobbyists managed to slip the rider into the major bill, which — despite the rider — has virtually nothing to do with the topic.

This is a typical and routinely practiced move by lobbyists to insert an incognito line of legislation into a bill generally viewed as favorable overall. One that has proven to be effective for Monsanto.

2007 Promise to Label GMOs

The result is now major outcry against Obama for signing the bill into law and protecting the biotech juggernaut Monsanto. Many fail to remember, however, that Obama first decided to allow Monsanto to continue pulverizing the food supply and the health of the nation back in 2008 when he went back on his promise to ‘immediately’ label GMOs. It was in 2007, during a campaign speech, that Obama first stated his support of non-GMO and GMO labeling activists, in which he promised to swiftly label GMOs.

You can see the video from our Youtube channel here:

For a brief period before the bill was passed by the Senate and now signed into law by Obama, both myself and many others in the alternative news community crusaded tirelessly to alert politicians and activists in order to stop the Protection Act from going through. Unfortunately, time was not on our side. The hasty vote by the Senate and the news blackout from the mainstream media were enough to break through the warnings of concerned activists (and people who just want real food). Now, however, renewed interest in the GMO labeling campaign and the fight against Monsanto brews.

With such a blatant and cocky act against the United States and its people, Monsanto has set itself up to fail. Let’s remind Obama of his promise to label GMOs he made many years ago.

I really, really dislike this company. And I really really dislike this law.

Moi Aussi

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You're not factoring in the "being exempt from litigation, laws and regulations" part... I guess.

And that these are patented and owned crops...while they buy up the seeds around the world. Power hungry and greedy rolled into one.

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Mr. Taylor began his career as a staff attorney at FDA, holding various positions including deputy commissioner for policy. He was involved in issuing regulations to address seafood safety and in carrying out nutrition labeling requirements.

Other positions held by Mr. Taylor include senior fellow, Resources for the Future; professor, School of Medicine, University of Maryland; partner, King & Spalding law firm; and vice president for public policy, Monsanto Company.

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I'm not a big fan of Monsanto at all. And I do think they overstepped their bounds with some of this. But at the same time, there was a lot of good things in this bill as well.

I would like to point out that also included in this bill is:

• Money to pay for food inspectors who would have been furloughed because of budget cuts required under the Budget Control Act.
• Increase in funding for the Special Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) in order that every low income person at nutritional risk can be served by this program.
• Prevented the ending of the Conservation Stewardship Program, which rewards famers and ranchers for engaging in practices that are environmental beneficial.

So it wasn't all bad. The litigation and regulation aspects sound sneaky and evil. But with everything in the government, you have to take quite a bit of bad with whatever good they actually manage.

Regarding GMOs. People are very fearful of GMOs for the most part. And a small bit of that is certainly justified. But we've been using GMOs for decades now. The higher yields, resistances, reduced insecticide usage, etc. have actually saved millions of lives already in poorly developed countries. Many poorer nations are already very dependent on the benefits these GMOs provide. And with the ever rising population of the world, that dependence is going to keep increasing. GMOs will likely play a big part in managing to feed our future population.

I'm as disappointed as the next Liberal but looking on the bright side it must be very reassuring that Obama might be a Socialist/Communist but he is corrupt enough to do the right thing for big american companies.

I'm as disappointed as the next Liberal but looking on the bright side it must be very reassuring that Obama might be a Socialist/Communist but he is corrupt enough to do the right thing for big american companies.

Which makes him a fascist, on this anyway, by protecting markets ...'er giving them markets.
But fascism is the sister of socialism/communism sharing six of its planks.

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